My Treasures from the Weekend
Nov. 4th, 2008 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sageautumnHere's what I bought at the first auction:
Karo Syrup sign: 12.50
Pulley w/ 1/2 singletree: 3.00
Misc Tools: 9.00
At the second auction:
medium/small brass bucket: 22.50
brass tray: 2.00
weather: 2.00
Brass and tray: 5.00
hand saws: 3.00
box lot: 5.00
I didn't do anything good at the first auction and spent way too much for what I did get. The Karo Syrup sign is cute--it has the Dionne quints featured, but it's new and still has some light damage. The pulley is greasy-ish and the singletree is totally worthless except as a decorating piece. The misc tools were an old fire extinguisher--which was in much worse shape than I thought, and an eagle--which was aluminum, and not brass. At the first auction I did badly, and lost money. I'm making myself feel better by saying I enjoyed it--which I did, and that it was my first auction, and good that I just got my toes wet--which it was, and it did help me*.
At the second auction... I did much better. The brass bucket I probably paid a bit too much for--I won't be making anything much on it, but I also didn't hurt myself either. It's a nice polished one. Overall, I got five other pieces of brass, one of which is pretty nice--it has a lip and has an oriental scene/figures on it. I'll do okay on them. The weather thing--a wooden frame with a barometer, thermometer, and humidity reader on it--was really disappointing. I thought it was brass, but it was just plastic or tin. Still, I won't be losing any money there, at two bucks.
The handsaws and the box lot were my best pieces of the day! I got five handsaws for three bucks, four of which were nice. (One was just weird.) The box lot was a bunch of crap, but in it there was also a white throw, a large offwhite bedspread--the old cotton ones with the raised thread, a set of calendar prints, an oldstyle feather pillow, two towels--both with crazy 70's prints on them, and some misc stuff. I also got an army/military type hat, and a spoon rack.
I priced everything as follows:
Heavy Round Oriental Etched Brass Tray: 28.00
Oblong Brass Tray, Girl Hauling Water: 5.00 x2 (I got two of these)
Heavy Round Hammered Brass Tray: 12.50
Heavy Little Brass Bucket: 32.00
Barometer, Thermo, Humidity Wall Hanging: 9.50
1973 Calendar prints, mostly Currier and Ives: 4.00/all
Old Timey Feather Pillow: 3.00
Two Muted Color Floral Print Pillows: 1.50/pr
Crochet Covered Pillow w/retro colors: 3.00
Black and Bright Satiny Pillow**: 3.00
Off White Bedspread: 28.00
Woven Lap Throw, White w/Heart Design: 5.00
Retro Towel, 60-70's design: 2.00 x2
Eagle, nicely detailed, hang over door or above garage: 8.50
Karo Syrup Sign w/Dionne quints: 12.50
I haven't priced my saws yet--my aunt thinks I should give them as Christmas presents (but I think she's crazy and noone would want a handsaw!!). I did sell one to her, though--for $5.00. I gave her another one, cause it was weird and new and couldn't really go in the mall. (If I price the others, they'll probably be 9.50 or 12.50 each--they are nice, and have a bit of detail on the handles... but they're not "that" old.)
I sold the hat and the spoonrack to my gran for $5.00, then sold her the fire extinguisher for $1.00, and the pulley and singletree for $3.00. I'm glad enough to be rid of the pulley--I broke even, and as soon as I'd left the first auction I knew I'd paid too much for everything. I'm happy to have the dollar out of the fire thing, and I do hope she can make something on it.
If I take out for the leather LazyBoy recliners I bought for Leon... and don't include gas or anything... (but do include the tax I paid)... I spent about seventy dollars. A bit much, yes... but I did have fun, and didn't do toooo badly once everything got priced out.
I'm still pondering if I want to go to another auction next weekend or not. Finances will decide that, to a point... but I think I could take even $50 and still have a decent time, and do okay. The people that held the second auction are having another estate auction this coming weekend... ...I'm thinking about heading to it. And I _think_ I'll have about $125 to play with.
Paycheck after this one, though... it's definately bill time!
* if nothing else, I figured out I needed to write down what I'd bid on and what I paid, because I couldn't remember when I got up there to pay for it, and they could've ripped me off
**It's black satin with a kinda pretty, busy orange pattern through it... it looks vague oriental, and is almost definately a chair cushion/pillow... but I didn't want to write that in case someone wanted to use it for something else
Karo Syrup sign: 12.50
Pulley w/ 1/2 singletree: 3.00
Misc Tools: 9.00
At the second auction:
medium/small brass bucket: 22.50
brass tray: 2.00
weather: 2.00
Brass and tray: 5.00
hand saws: 3.00
box lot: 5.00
I didn't do anything good at the first auction and spent way too much for what I did get. The Karo Syrup sign is cute--it has the Dionne quints featured, but it's new and still has some light damage. The pulley is greasy-ish and the singletree is totally worthless except as a decorating piece. The misc tools were an old fire extinguisher--which was in much worse shape than I thought, and an eagle--which was aluminum, and not brass. At the first auction I did badly, and lost money. I'm making myself feel better by saying I enjoyed it--which I did, and that it was my first auction, and good that I just got my toes wet--which it was, and it did help me*.
At the second auction... I did much better. The brass bucket I probably paid a bit too much for--I won't be making anything much on it, but I also didn't hurt myself either. It's a nice polished one. Overall, I got five other pieces of brass, one of which is pretty nice--it has a lip and has an oriental scene/figures on it. I'll do okay on them. The weather thing--a wooden frame with a barometer, thermometer, and humidity reader on it--was really disappointing. I thought it was brass, but it was just plastic or tin. Still, I won't be losing any money there, at two bucks.
The handsaws and the box lot were my best pieces of the day! I got five handsaws for three bucks, four of which were nice. (One was just weird.) The box lot was a bunch of crap, but in it there was also a white throw, a large offwhite bedspread--the old cotton ones with the raised thread, a set of calendar prints, an oldstyle feather pillow, two towels--both with crazy 70's prints on them, and some misc stuff. I also got an army/military type hat, and a spoon rack.
I priced everything as follows:
Heavy Round Oriental Etched Brass Tray: 28.00
Oblong Brass Tray, Girl Hauling Water: 5.00 x2 (I got two of these)
Heavy Round Hammered Brass Tray: 12.50
Heavy Little Brass Bucket: 32.00
Barometer, Thermo, Humidity Wall Hanging: 9.50
1973 Calendar prints, mostly Currier and Ives: 4.00/all
Old Timey Feather Pillow: 3.00
Two Muted Color Floral Print Pillows: 1.50/pr
Crochet Covered Pillow w/retro colors: 3.00
Black and Bright Satiny Pillow**: 3.00
Off White Bedspread: 28.00
Woven Lap Throw, White w/Heart Design: 5.00
Retro Towel, 60-70's design: 2.00 x2
Eagle, nicely detailed, hang over door or above garage: 8.50
Karo Syrup Sign w/Dionne quints: 12.50
I haven't priced my saws yet--my aunt thinks I should give them as Christmas presents (but I think she's crazy and noone would want a handsaw!!). I did sell one to her, though--for $5.00. I gave her another one, cause it was weird and new and couldn't really go in the mall. (If I price the others, they'll probably be 9.50 or 12.50 each--they are nice, and have a bit of detail on the handles... but they're not "that" old.)
I sold the hat and the spoonrack to my gran for $5.00, then sold her the fire extinguisher for $1.00, and the pulley and singletree for $3.00. I'm glad enough to be rid of the pulley--I broke even, and as soon as I'd left the first auction I knew I'd paid too much for everything. I'm happy to have the dollar out of the fire thing, and I do hope she can make something on it.
If I take out for the leather LazyBoy recliners I bought for Leon... and don't include gas or anything... (but do include the tax I paid)... I spent about seventy dollars. A bit much, yes... but I did have fun, and didn't do toooo badly once everything got priced out.
I'm still pondering if I want to go to another auction next weekend or not. Finances will decide that, to a point... but I think I could take even $50 and still have a decent time, and do okay. The people that held the second auction are having another estate auction this coming weekend... ...I'm thinking about heading to it. And I _think_ I'll have about $125 to play with.
Paycheck after this one, though... it's definately bill time!
* if nothing else, I figured out I needed to write down what I'd bid on and what I paid, because I couldn't remember when I got up there to pay for it, and they could've ripped me off
**It's black satin with a kinda pretty, busy orange pattern through it... it looks vague oriental, and is almost definately a chair cushion/pillow... but I didn't want to write that in case someone wanted to use it for something else
